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To No Avail
by Rob Wallis

Mario Stefani: Loneliness is not being alone; it’s loving others to no avail.

The glass pinning your note
down on the kitchen table
is a knife thrust through
the paper-thin layer of my
trust, the words like crackling
static on a faulty line
and all I decipher, or rather
intuit is the horror story
about finding somebody else.

Volume 54 Number 1, July 2009
Cover: Robyn Mundy of Mundy Design from a painting by Helen Norton, The Shores of the Excommunicated Oil on canvas (150cm x 200cm).